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George Edwin Taylor
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Eugene Jacques Bullard
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African American soldiers were put into integrated units for the first time since the revolutionary war.
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Rosa parks, when asked to vacate her seat for a white man and sit in the colored section, refuses and is arrested. This was the start of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
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After the arrest of Rosa Parks the civil rights activists of montgomery boycotted the buses.
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The U.S. Supreme Court refuses to reconsider a lower court's ruling against bus segregation in South Carolina.
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The Supreme Court denied Alabama's bus segregation laws
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The Albany Movement was a mass protest campaign propelled by Martin Luther King Jr.
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The first African American, James Merideth, brought such an uprise that John F. Kennedy had to send 5,000 troops to control the matter.
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Martin Luther king is jailed after protests in Birmingham, Alabama where he argues you shouldnt have to follow laws that are unjust. Bibliography
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A council representing businesses in downtown Birmingham reaches an agreement with Martin Luther King Jr. and the SCLC. The council decides to desegregate and hire African American workers and associates.
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When Alabama's governor promised segregation 'Today, Tomorrow, Forever" he was forced by President Kennedy to let African Americans enroll
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John F. Kennedy passed a bill syaing that public discrimination in public places was prohibitted.
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Martin Luther king gave his iconic "I have a dream" speech which gave way to momentum in civil rights in legislature.
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On this day in Birmingham, Alabama, a bomb exploded at the 16th Street Baptist Church before sunday services. This incident killed four young girls: Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Denise McNair, and injured many others.
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Malcolm X, a civil rights activist, was killed by people who were black muslim. They shot and killed Malcolm X for changing his religion to a different form of Islam.
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The Voting Rights Act Passed by congress made it easier for African Americans to register for voting.
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Edward Brooke
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In 1966, the black panthers were formed by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale
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Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at age 39 by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennesse.
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Tiger Woods
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Barack Obama
